That's the problem with this whole thing, Joe. The RINOS know smokers are only 1 out of 4 of their constituents, so why should they give a damn about us.
One lawmaker told me I still had to vote for the RINO, if I don't, then some DemocRAT will take their seat. I am in between a rock and a hard spot here.
I'm with ya here...I'm so close to telling the gop to "go to hell" and take the 'let em crash and burn' position, it isn't even funny. Less than a month away from the primaries...
Not necessarily. It is pretty widely acknowledged that Ralph Nader cost Algore the election. Did this bother Nader at all? Nope. His comment was "Maybe the next time the conservative wing of the Democratic party will pay a little more attention to the progressive wing." Do you think that Nader moved the Democrats to the right or to the left with his manuver? I think he shifted the democrats even further to the left.
If there is a third party (libertarian, constitution party, etc.) vote for them and then when the RINO's cry about losing the election, (and BTW the democrats won't be measurably worse than the RINO's in office) you can rest assured that they will be shifted back more to the conservative side.
In addition it's idiotic for politicians to think that Michigan smokers aren't going to find a way around the tax - I see a lot of imports from smoke shops on indian reservations. Of course what politicians lack in intelligence they more than make up for in arrogance, so you can't really expect them to grasp this. After all why bother to learn anything when you already know everything?